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"Started reading this on the train back from *the museum* in question.
I probably will DNF bc it’s not my style or genre but I’m riffing so far." — May 20, 2026 12:27PM
"Started reading this on the train back from *the museum* in question.
I probably will DNF bc it’s not my style or genre but I’m riffing so far." — May 20, 2026 12:27PM
Andrew Mcc
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"Her copy of Eat, Pray, Love has been read so many times the cover has fallen off.
That’s it—that’s what’s been bothering me. Instead of reading EPL and seeing Elizabeth Gilbert as a self-unaware narcissist ruining the lives of people around her, the author of this book read EPL and said “I wanna do this too.” So she leaves her fiance to travel the world in the same vein. I should DNF this." — Mar 01, 2026 04:01AM
"Her copy of Eat, Pray, Love has been read so many times the cover has fallen off.
That’s it—that’s what’s been bothering me. Instead of reading EPL and seeing Elizabeth Gilbert as a self-unaware narcissist ruining the lives of people around her, the author of this book read EPL and said “I wanna do this too.” So she leaves her fiance to travel the world in the same vein. I should DNF this." — Mar 01, 2026 04:01AM
“Yeah, about the test...
The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football, and while scrolling through your Twitter feed. The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages, whether you’ll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric, and whether you’ll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context. The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, will make your life yours. And everything, everything, will be on it.
...I know, right?”
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The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football, and while scrolling through your Twitter feed. The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages, whether you’ll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric, and whether you’ll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context. The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, will make your life yours. And everything, everything, will be on it.
...I know, right?”
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“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”
― Four Quartets
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”
― Four Quartets
“I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“And I would tell him, so full of twentysomething wisdom, that life is almost never about choosing between one thing you really want and another thing you don't want at all. If you're lucky, and healthy, and live in a country where you have enough to eat and no fear that you're going to get shot when you walk out your door, life is an endless series of choosing between two things you want almost equally. And you have to evaluate and determine which awesome thing you want infinitesimally more, and then give up that other awesome thing you want almost exactly as much. You have to trade awesome for awesome. Everyone I knew, no matter what they chose, was at least a little in mourning for that other thing.”
― What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
― What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
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